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title: ‘Run a little quicker and you will be able to stop me, and I shall b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Run a little quicker and you will be able to stop me, and I shall be for ever grateful. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 2

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‘Run a little quicker and you will be able to stop me, and I shall be for ever grateful.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** run, be, stop · **To what, where:** little quicker, me

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:30:2
# text = ‘Run a little quicker and you will be able to stop me, and I shall be for ever grateful.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	quicker	quicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little quicker |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quicker=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  | ever | grateful *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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